I had grand plans for how blog-productive I’d be once I moved into my current sublet. I thought I’d sit down and create a big stash of ready-to-publish drafts to call upon during future hectic moments.

It hasn’t quite worked out that way. In truth, I’ve been writing a great deal, but when I’m at my computer, the words that come pouring out swirl and crash and shudder until they coalesce into poetry, not blogposts. And I don’t have the courage to publish my poetry here. Anywhere, really.

So, instead, my failsafe: chocolate reviews, because I can take myself out of the equation when describing the heady mix of cacao beans, sugar, and cacao butter.

Trader Joe’s Mini Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

If ever a chocolate confection needed no review but for the words YES I WILL YES, it would be these Trader Joe’s Mini Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups.

Would I love these more if they were made with dark chocolate and were vegan? Yes I would yes. But will my lactardation ever preclude my buying and mainlining these tiny little tip-of-my-pinky-finger-sized chocolate peanut butter cups of heaven? No it will not no.

Vosges Mo’s Dark Bar: Dark Chocolate with Hickory Smoked Bacon

Well, if we’re already riding the not-vegan chocolate train, we may as well also toot the horn and pull on our invisibility cloak so as to go spy on Draco.

Wait, that’s a different train.

I want butterbeer. Now.

I tried the original Vosges Mo’s Bacon Bar back in 2007, and found myself amused by the taste of salty bacon mixed with milk chocolate. Nowadays, though, I’m somewhat bored by the whole chocolate + salt malarkey, and am even more disinterested in porky desserts, so I purchased Vosges’ new dark chocolate version with ennui.

Eh. Ennui. The chocolate was sweeter than I expected, but then again it’s only 62% cacao, so my expectations were likely off track to begin with. The strongest flavours were salt and smoke, with the bacon presenting less as meatiness than chewy salt. A few years ago, I likely would have enjoyed this more, but right now? Pass me back the bucket of mini chocolate peanut butter cups, please.

Thank you Lou, but there’s no way, at least not right now. I’m not strong enough to share that part of me. (You are one of the people I wouldn’t mind seeing it, but I have to remember how public this forum is xoxo)

This post makes me just a little concerned for you, but I will hope that I am reading too much into paragraphs two and three…if not (or irrespective!), lots of hugs going your way and a reminder that your writing is beautiful whatever the focus.

I can’t quite grasp the concept of bacon in chocolate (perhaps it would have helped if I’d liked bacon even when I ate meat?) but those mini peanut butter cups look gorgeous 🙂

That teddy bear wasn’t designed by someone with a kind heart. Why didn’t they give him a friendlier face? I love the look of the mini peanut butter cups but I’d be scared about how many I could get through! xx

[…] of 41% cacao and beef jerky made from Piedmontese and Angus Cattle, and it put me in mind of Vosges Mo’s Bacon Bar. The aroma was predominately sweet with just a little hint of smokiness and spice, but nothing […]

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Hannah. Writer, editor, firm believer in socks, gin, laughter, buttered toast, cheesecake, and semicolons. Currently back in Canberra after two years living in Canada; heart tingling to see what happens next.